Continental Sweetens the Offer for Their OnePass Card to 50,000 Miles

Our band of brothers comes through again. It seems many of you received emails today with a better Continental One Pass Card offer than I have had on the blog. The new offer is 50,000 miles after first purchase and no first year fee. Thank you very much for passing the information along.

This is tough to turn down now, but keep in mind that the Continental Mileathon promotions begins on February 1st, and your application then will earn more miles in the promotion.

Here is the link (offer expired) for the 50,000 mile offer. It also includes the First Checked Bag free and the Lounge Passes on the anniversary.

I have removed all the ads on the blog for the 30,000 mile offer except the one in the right hand column which I am contracted to keep up.

Be sure to make screen shots or print the 50,000 mile offer when you apply. It is quite the bonanza week with the nice American Express/Delta transfer offer as well. Happy travels.

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gavinmac

With the platinum card, don't you also get $200 in reimbursement of fees on the airline of your choice?

I don't check a lot of bags and I'm not sure how to maximize the fee reimbursement. I can't order and eat $200 in pringles and M&Ms in a year.

Anonymous

And if you applied for the 50% offer before the 30% and only the 50% shows up in the account, what can you do?

Pauline

For the Delta Skymiles offer, you can create a new account and then transfer the 50K miles. After that, you can merge your 2 accounts and still enjoy the 50% bonus on the transfer.

I just did it and it worked like a charm. However, I did not see the 30% transfer bonus immediately so it may not be stackable.

FrugalTravelGuy

Anon: Wait out the 30%. I saw suggestions that one can take up to one week

Alex

how good are the delta miles? how many do you need for a flight to Europe from NY?

Nel

Wait, I am confused. On the 50% Delta transfer bonus part of the equation, the 25k MQM miles bonus, is this extra miles on top of the MR points conversion, plus the 50% bonus? Or is it just "considering" the 50k bonus to be MQM?

In otherwords (forgetting the 30% bonus for a second), if I transfer 50k MR points, do I end up with 75k miles (50k + 25k bonus) or 100k (50k + 25k bonus + 25k MQM bonus)?

Thanks so much and love the site!

Gabriel

RE: labels:

Yes.

Labels are picked up by aggregrator sites like Technorati which are also searched by google and other SEs.

Anonymous

Wish these were AA or UA points. There is something about DL that stops you in your tracks.

Anonymous

Is there a fee to transfer MR points to Delta?

Ryan

@NEL: you would end up with 75k miles and 25,000 MWMs the miles and MQMs are not comnineable. The MQMs count towards status and lifetime miles.

Anonymous

Yes – Labels, please!

justinhamlin

Rick –

Labels will help your blogger search results as it will categorize your posts into sections, which Blogger and Google will search on.

There are very similar ones on WordPress, but the concept is the same. It can do nothing but help.

Lawrence

How long will these offers last– especially the "stackability" part of it?

Kirk

I was approved for the card but I was never offered the ability to borrow points – I assume step 4 means after I get the card, activate it and sign up for membership rewards?

FrugalTravelGuy

We are seldom told how long the offers will last.

After the card is approved and received you will have the opportunity to "borrow the points" on the Amex website

Anonymous

I didn't do Suntrust deal because I know Delta miles are called Delta Pesos. Now this offer comes up but for the same trip on another carrier it will cost me 65,000 delta miles and only 45,000 on another carrier. I realize this is less cost per mile. Is that why everyone is after this deal. Maybe I'm in Hawaii so my tickets are very high. I'm trying to figure out what I'm missing out on.

alexis

It seems to me that most of the rewards are geared towards credit card users. Realistically, can I honestly expect to earn free travel without applying for and opening new credit cards?

Kirk

Thanks Rick – this looks like a great deal!

I recently spent 40k miles x 2 to fly to Hawaii with my wife which was a pretty good deal for $800 tickets, but it can be hard to use their award website to find low awards.

If you don't spend the miles on flights, 90k Skymiles will buy you 8 $100 Amex Gift cards, which is a pretty good deal by itself.

Alice

Rick,

How do you confirm 50% and 30% has been applied to your Delta acct? I can't see them in my Delta profile. When I tried to re-register for the 50% and 30%, it says I have been registered. Does that confirm I already have 50% and 30%? Just want to be sure.

Also, the Amex Plat link you provided, everytime I click 'Apply' button, it didnt give me a form to fill out my information. It only has the login/register box and the authentication box. Can you advise? Thanks!

Anonymous

Rick, after a couple of days of waiting, the 30% offer showed up in my Skymiles account after registering for the 50%. I also applied for the Plat card and was approved. Now lets see if I will get the 90k.

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Anonymous

Rick, its incredible to see snow at Haleakala. I was hiking in that volcano not too long ago in November.

BobbyM

To everyone with the Delta MR deal – patience ! If you click on the links Rick has in the blog and register, you will be good to go. Don't worry if it doesn't show up on the Delta profile right away. Give it a day or two – Delta promo registering database is not the same one as the Delta SkyMiles profile database. They run periodic updates to sync them up – so it will take time – but rest assured you are registered. One way to verify is to try to register again with the same SkyMiles number and it will provide the "You are already registered" comment.

Regarding the miles calculations – it will be as Rick posted earlier – 90K. Out of these 90K, 25K will be additionally recognized as MQMs – that is they go towards your medallion status.

Finally – the Amex MR transfer – if you can't find the link to transfer online, I would recommend calling Amex and have a Plat Desk agent do it for you. You just paid them $450, the least they can do is ease your pain in managing your account

Still having problems applying for the card – as long you use Rick's link to get to the Amex website to signup, you should be good. Yes, some folks have had issues with how the screen or application looks (I did with Firefox and the thousand add-ons I have on it), but switch the browsers around (worked for me with IE) and you should be good to go.

Good Luck!

Anonymous

I'm trying to use the link for the AMEX Plat. card, but I don't see anything on the application page that's offering me 25K membership rewards points for spending $1K in the first 3 months of membership.

FrugalTravelGuy

Anon: Clear your Cookies and use another browser.

Anonymous

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